2021 AFL Round 19: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 24 July 2021 between Melbourne and Western Bulldogs during round 19 of the 2021 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Western Bulldogs at MCG. Max Gawn captained the hosts with Jack Viney as vice-captain. Marcus Bontempelli captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Simon Goodwin and the visitors were coached by Luke Beveridge.

Melbourne
Back: M. Hibberd, S. May, J. Lever
Half-back: J. Hunt, H. Petty, C. Salem
Centre: A. Brayshaw, C. Petracca, E. Langdon
Half-forward: K. Pickett, T. McDonald, J. Viney (vice-capt.)
Forward: A. Neal-Bullen, B. Brown, B. Fritsch
Follower: M. Gawn (capt.), C. Oliver, J. Harmes
Int.: L. Jackson, J. Jordon, T. Rivers, C. Spargo
Sub.: T. Sparrow

Western Bulldogs
Back: E. Richards, A. Keath, B. Williams
Half-back: T. Duryea, Z. Cordy, B. Dale
Centre: J. Macrae, B. Smith, R. Smith
Half-forward: R. Garcia, A. Naughton, C. Weightman
Forward: J. Johannisen, J. Bruce, M. Hannan
Follower: T. English, T. Liberatore, M. Bontempelli (capt.)
Int.: C. Daniel, L. Hunter, J. Schache, J. Ugle-Hagan
Sub.: A. Scott

Melbourne (9.11.65) were defeated by Western Bulldogs (13.7.85).

Goalkickers
Melbourne: B. Brown (2), B. Fritsch (2), K. Pickett (2), T. McDonald, C. Petracca, J. Viney
Western Bulldogs: M. Bontempelli (2), J. Bruce (2), M. Hannan (2), A. Naughton (2), C. Daniel, T. English, B. Smith, J. Ugle-Hagan, C. Weightman

As a result of this match, Melbourne were then 3rd on the ladder (down from 1st) and Western Bulldogs were then 1st on the ladder (up from 2nd) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 19
Teams: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs
Date: Saturday 24 July 2021
Time: 7:25 PM
Venue: MCG

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Western Bulldogs
Score: 9.11.65 - 13.7.85

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 1 . 4 2 . 7 7 . 9 9 . 11 9 . 11 (65)
Western Bulldogs 3 . 2 6 . 4 10 . 5 13 . 7 13 . 7 (85)
Margin WBUL by 10 WBUL by 21 WBUL by 14 WBUL by 20 WBUL by 20
Duration 31:23 33:17 32:23 30:50 2:07:53

Honour Roll

Coaches: Simon Goodwin (Melbourne), Luke Beveridge (Western Bulldogs)
Captains: Max Gawn (Melbourne), Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)
Vice-Captains: Jack Viney (Melbourne), unknown (Western Bulldogs)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Donlon (#1), C. Fleer (#26), N. Williamson (#22), E: M. Rodger (#42)
Goal Umpire: M. Dervan, S. Walsh, E: D. Rodan
Boundary Umpire: A. Coote, C. Gordon, B. MacDonald, M. Thomson

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Marcus Bontempelli WBUL 4 3
Jack Macrae WBUL 11 2
Clayton Oliver MELB 13 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Marcus Bontempelli WBUL 4 9 1 1 0 0 0
Caleb Daniel WBUL 35 8 1 0 1 0 0
Clayton Oliver MELB 13 7 0 1 1 0 0
Jack Macrae WBUL 11 3 0 0 0 1 1
Lachie Hunter WBUL 7 2 0 0 0 1 0
Bailey Smith WBUL 6 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
10 Brayshaw, Angus WL 83% 0 0 19 12 7 2 0 5 1 7 0 2 0 2
50 Brown, Ben FF 82% 2 2 11 10 1 6 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 2
31 Fritsch, Bayley FPR 81% 2 1 12 8 4 1 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1
11 Gawn, Max (c) RU 89% 0 0 18 16 2 2 56 2 9 3 0 1 3 4
4 Harmes, James RO 82% 0 0 15 6 9 2 0 8 5 6 0 4 2 0
14 Hibberd, Michael BPL 82% 0 0 14 6 8 4 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 0
29 Hunt, Jayden HBFL 83% 0 1 23 16 7 7 0 1 1 5 0 1 3 5
6 Jackson, Luke INT 66% 0 0 9 2 7 4 9 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
23 Jordon, James INT 64% 0 0 14 3 11 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 1
15 Langdon, Ed WR 100% 0 0 15 9 6 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2
8 Lever, Jake BPR 95% 0 0 20 8 12 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 3
1 May, Steven FB 97% 0 0 14 12 2 1 0 1 1 5 2 2 4 2
25 McDonald, Tom CHF 83% 1 0 14 9 5 4 2 2 1 2 0 1 0 4
30 Neal-Bullen, Alex FPL 70% 0 1 25 16 9 2 0 7 7 8 2 1 2 6
13 Oliver, Clayton RR 88% 0 1 38 19 19 4 0 5 8 7 1 1 1 8
5 Petracca, Christian C 98% 1 0 31 18 13 4 0 7 6 7 0 0 2 1
35 Petty, Harry CHB 90% 0 0 4 1 3 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
36 Pickett, Kysaiah HFFL 74% 2 2 13 9 4 2 0 8 0 5 0 3 1 2
24 Rivers, Trent INT 65% 0 0 14 11 3 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 3
3 Salem, Christian HBFR 87% 0 0 20 11 9 2 0 3 1 6 0 2 4 0
9 Spargo, Charlie INT 63% 0 0 8 6 2 1 0 6 1 4 2 2 2 1
32 Sparrow, Tom SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Viney, Jack (vc) HFFR 78% 1 1 19 13 6 3 0 9 1 5 0 3 2 4
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 9 11 370 221 149 60 67 77 44 88 11 25 39 51

Western Bulldogs

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
4 Bontempelli, Marcus (c) RO 86% 2 0 31 24 7 3 0 6 9 9 1 3 2 10
17 Bruce, Josh FF 90% 2 1 12 6 6 3 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 2
12 Cordy, Zaine CHB 100% 0 0 14 7 7 4 0 6 0 0 1 0 1 0
31 Dale, Bailey HBFR 83% 0 0 24 20 4 2 0 1 0 6 0 2 6 4
35 Daniel, Caleb INT 88% 1 0 34 17 17 6 0 4 5 4 3 0 3 2
15 Duryea, Taylor HBFL 83% 0 0 17 13 4 8 0 0 0 2 2 1 6 5
44 English, Tim RU 89% 1 0 17 6 11 2 14 5 3 2 3 1 0 3
38 Garcia, Riley HFFL 80% 0 0 11 5 6 0 0 5 1 3 1 1 1 1
29 Hannan, Mitch FPR 83% 2 1 7 6 1 3 0 2 0 1 2 1 0 0
7 Hunter, Lachie INT 86% 0 0 26 14 12 4 0 5 3 4 2 0 2 2
39 Johannisen, Jason FPL 80% 0 0 9 5 4 4 0 1 2 3 0 1 0 3
42 Keath, Alex FB↓ 10% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Liberatore, Tom RR 87% 0 1 27 12 15 2 0 4 6 7 3 0 2 2
11 Macrae, Jack WL 87% 0 0 38 19 19 5 0 7 9 4 0 0 3 8
33 Naughton, Aaron CHF 87% 2 1 9 5 4 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1
20 Richards, Ed BPL 51% 0 0 11 8 3 1 0 3 1 3 1 0 5 0
13 Schache, Josh INT 95% 0 0 17 12 5 6 4 4 1 1 1 0 4 0
28 Scott, Anthony SUB↑ 57% 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 1
6 Smith, Bailey C 87% 1 1 26 18 8 4 0 9 4 3 0 0 1 8
37 Smith, Roarke WR 76% 0 0 5 1 4 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0
22 Ugle-Hagan, Jamarra INT 67% 1 0 5 3 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2
19 Weightman, Cody HFFR 65% 1 0 8 7 1 4 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0
34 Williams, Bailey BPR 84% 0 0 13 10 3 4 0 4 0 1 1 0 4 1
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 13 7 365 221 144 71 18 76 47 61 25 11 41 55

A. Scott replaced A. Keath.

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Player Line-Up

Melbourne Coach: Simon Goodwin
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
20 E. Richards 42 A. Keath 34 B. Williams 11 M. Gawn (c) 6 L. Jackson
31 B. Fritsch 50 B. Brown 30 A. Neal-Bullen 13 C. Oliver 23 J. Jordon
FORWARD 4 J. Harmes 24 T. Rivers
HALF-BACK

9 C. Spargo
15 T. Duryea 12 Z. Cordy 31 B. Dale

32 T. Sparrow
7 J. Viney (vc) 25 T. McDonald 36 K. Pickett



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



11 J. Macrae 6 B. Smith 37 R. Smith



15 E. Langdon 5 C. Petracca 10 A. Brayshaw FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 44 T. English 35 C. Daniel
HALF-FORWARD 21 T. Liberatore 7 L. Hunter
38 R. Garcia 33 A. Naughton 19 C. Weightman 4 M. Bontempelli (c) 13 J. Schache
3 C. Salem 35 H. Petty 29 J. Hunt

22 J. Ugle-Hagan
HALF-BACK

28 A. Scott
FORWARD



39 J. Johannisen 17 J. Bruce 29 M. Hannan



8 J. Lever 1 S. May 14 M. Hibberd



BACK



Western Bulldogs Coach: Luke Beveridge

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MELB Clayton Oliver behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 03:34
MELB Ben Brown behind 0.2.2 - 0.0.0 05:14
WBUL Marcus Bontempelli goal 0.2.2 - 1.0.6 06:22
MELB Jack Viney behind 0.3.3 - 1.0.6 10:45
MELB Christian Petracca goal 1.3.9 - 1.0.6 12:53
MELB Kysaiah Pickett behind 1.4.10 - 1.0.6 16:49
WBUL Mitch Hannan behind 1.4.10 - 1.1.7 17:40
WBUL Rushed behind 1.4.10 - 1.2.8 18:55
WBUL Josh Bruce goal 1.4.10 - 2.2.14 20:05
WBUL Tim English goal 1.4.10 - 3.2.20 27:54
Q2 WBUL Rushed behind 1.4.10 - 3.3.21 00:27
WBUL Aaron Naughton goal 1.4.10 - 4.3.27 01:29
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 2.4.16 - 4.3.27 03:23
MELB Bayley Fritsch behind 2.5.17 - 4.3.27 05:09
MELB Rushed behind 2.6.18 - 4.3.27 16:06
WBUL Josh Bruce behind 2.6.18 - 4.4.28 18:57
MELB Ben Brown behind 2.7.19 - 4.4.28 22:46
WBUL Mitch Hannan goal 2.7.19 - 5.4.34 28:04
WBUL Bailey Smith goal 2.7.19 - 6.4.40 31:21
Q3 MELB Tom McDonald goal 3.7.25 - 6.4.40 00:53
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 4.7.31 - 6.4.40 02:03
WBUL Josh Bruce goal 4.7.31 - 7.4.46 07:28
WBUL Caleb Daniel goal 4.7.31 - 8.4.52 11:26
MELB Ben Brown goal 5.7.37 - 8.4.52 13:54
MELB Jayden Hunt behind 5.8.38 - 8.4.52 15:54
MELB Kysaiah Pickett behind 5.9.39 - 8.4.52 17:41
WBUL Cody Weightman goal 5.9.39 - 9.4.58 19:55
WBUL Aaron Naughton behind 5.9.39 - 9.5.59 22:45
MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 6.9.45 - 9.5.59 24:40
WBUL Aaron Naughton goal 6.9.45 - 10.5.65 27:58
MELB Jack Viney goal 7.9.51 - 10.5.65 29:33
Q4 WBUL Tom Liberatore behind 7.9.51 - 10.6.66 02:04
WBUL Bailey Smith behind 7.9.51 - 10.7.67 04:03
MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 8.9.57 - 10.7.67 10:16
MELB Ben Brown goal 9.9.63 - 10.7.67 13:47
WBUL Marcus Bontempelli goal 9.9.63 - 11.7.73 17:49
WBUL Jamarra Ugle-Hagan goal 9.9.63 - 12.7.79 19:29
WBUL Mitch Hannan goal 9.9.63 - 13.7.85 21:36
MELB Alex Neal-Bullen behind 9.10.64 - 13.7.85 24:34
MELB Rushed behind 9.11.65 - 13.7.85 26:17